sicken
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The problem with this line is that unvaccinated children can sicken infants and immuno-compromised children who can’t be inoculated, leaving some disabled or worse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Microplastics, along with ultra-tiny nanoplastics, can kill or severely sicken marine life before entering the food web and ultimately ending up on our plates.
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
Scotland driving at Greece's heart in a bid to sicken them again after sickening them at Hampden earlier in the group.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025
For instance, Peterson and his daughter hype an all-meat diet, which would sicken any person who actually tried to follow it.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2024
Donay tells the central guard I will sicken if he does not give me cardboard.
From "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti" by Frances Temple
Influenza, or flu, sickens millions of people across the globe each year and can lead to severe illness and death.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2024
In the U.S. alone, the bug sickens thousands and kills hundreds every year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2024
Caerphilly Bird Rescue posted a comment about the video, saying it "sickens me to the stomach".
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2023
And that are media continues to ignore/dismiss a very obvious reality sickens me.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2023
“The sight of a wound or scar always agitates and sickens me,” she said.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
"They will be sickened and embarrassed to have a parent be so callous and vindictive."
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
“They will be sickened and embarrassed to have a parent be so callous and vindictive.”
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
Over the past month, the restaurant industry overall has also struggled with a cyclcospora outbreak that has sickened thousands of people in the U.S. and has been linked to two deaths.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
In 2010, a salmonella outbreak tied to Taco Bell sickened 155 people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
He clenched his teeth, sickened by what he’d almost done.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
The cyclospora outbreak has become the nation’s largest of its kind, sickening thousands of people.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Wildlife officials had found that many of these poisons worked their way through the food chain, sickening and killing owls, raptors, coyotes and mountain lions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
And I would be living within walking distance of a sickening number of farmers markets.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
"It was sickening how into it they were," he said.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
He had coolly—some even said coldly—stood firm during the terrible onslaught of the myxomatosis, ruthlessly driving out every rabbit who seemed to be sickening.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
